A CD (Classic Mozart, ABC) stutterd on one track when I played it on either of my two identical Rotel CD players. I returned it to the ABC shop and they replaced it. The replacement CD stutters on the same track, in both machines, but plays OK on my PC. One of the Rotels has been hammered over the years and owes us nothing. The other Rotel has had little use. Can anyone explain this?
I would think slight problem on disk exist. Just a combination of ths error and ROTEL player. Error exists in the master copy of CD, so all the disks you will get contain it.
Rudolf
Probably some copy protectuion scheme on the disc that the old Rotels cn't quite cope with.
geoff
As far as playing on your computer goes it probably has better error correction being newer.
Cheers TT
Not certain, but since computer CD players must track at much higher rotational speeds, perhaps it's tracking an eccentricity in the disk that your audio-only drive can't?
some discs are absolute disasters when it comes to that sort of behaviour for example
"worlds best ever beer songs vol 2, (2 cd set)" "led zeppelin remasters cd 2 "
In both these cases, on some philips CDM-12/pro players, (and possibly others) they refuse to even play most times you try, but work perfectly in a computer.
This is obviously a manufacturing defect as it's on all copies of them
Unfortunately the only cure seems to be to copy to CD-R and put the original away for safekeeping, However, to make matters even worse, many types of burnt discs wont play on certain cd players as well !
This reminds me of a story I read once in Electronics Australia
A similar thing happened were a CD would play on a cheap CD player but would not play on the top of the range player.
The answer was that the more expensive player had error detection if it found a error it would dump the signal, were the cheaper player would just play the lot, error and all.
Years ago I had heaps of trouble with CD-Rs on older CD players but I found that using Nero and burning as an Audio CD fixes the problem.
Also, in the olden days, when Copy Protected CDs came out they also wouldn't play in my same players so I would dutifully burn a copy and return the original back to the shop and say it didn't play in my player - which of course was absolutely true ;-) The fact that the computer not only played it but burnt a perfect copy never seemed to enter into the discussion ;-)
Obviously I wasn't the only one doing it as this *stupid* idea seems to have now passed.
Cheers TT
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